The influence of the local context on the implementation and impact of EU Cohesion Policy

Bachtrögler, Julia; Fratesi, Ugo; Perucca, Giovanni

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1551615

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“…A forceful pursuit of societies within those countries to adopt democratic standards along with the economic system which functioned in Western Europe became a basis for those political and economic changes [11]. Right now, some of the CEE countries which have joined the EU can boast of having implemented a democratic structure and stable, market-based economic growth [12,13]. This is in part due to the substantial support they had received, first during the pre-accession period through pre-accession programs of the EU as well as later with the help obtained as part of the EU Cohesion Policy, after forming a part of the Community [14].…”

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City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Glińska

Rudolf

2019

Sustainability

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City branding is becoming more and more popular, not only as a field of research, but also as a practice of local governments. Municipalities attempt to introduce this concept into their sustainable transformation process, positioning a city among its stakeholders as, for instance, an eco-oriented, innovative, or smart city. An idea that fosters building a strong and consistent city brand is brand personality. The aim of the paper is to diagnose a city’s brand personality dimensions/traits communicated via posts published on official Facebook accounts of cities and to identify differences occurring within this scope between cities of two selected Central and Eastern European countries—Poland and Ukraine. To achieve this aim, the research involved a content analysis of 1700 posts published by 34 municipalities representing regional capital cities of Poland and Ukraine. On the basis of these study results, the authors have supplemented the Aaker (1997) five-dimensional scale of brand personality with the sixth dimension: Prosocial Attitude, which includes cooperative and bureaucratic traits, to better comply with the approach of cities to problems of their inhabitants and their surrounding environment, which is consistent with the idea of sustainability. Furthermore, the fifth trait has been added to characteristics which make up Aaker’s Excitement dimension. Dubbed as patriotic, it refers to the city’s activities related to the local celebration of historical events, indicating national pride and identification with its place of residence. Bureaucratic and patriotic traits were quite frequently observed in posts published on the official Facebook accounts of Ukrainian cities. Moreover, the research proves that in case of Polish cities the dominating brand personality dimensions are Sincerity and Excitement. Ukrainian cities tend to exercise communication based on the Sincerity and Competence dimension.

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City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Glińska

Rudolf

2019

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“…We think that this could entail interesting policy implications as Locatelli et al (2017) show for public procurement processes that funding larger projects prepares the ground for more corruption than it would be the case when more and smaller projects are tendered. Other analyses show that firm subsidies are not equally effective when granted to firms of different size (Criscuolo et al 2012) and to firms located in different regions (Bachtrögler et al 2018).…”

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Guide to the galaxy of EU regional funds recipients: evidence from new data

Bachtrögler

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This study presents a new firm-and project-level dataset containing data on over two million projects co-funded by the EU structural and cohesion funds in 25 EU member states during the programming period 2007-2013. Information on individual beneficiary firms and institutions is linked with business data of Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS database. Moreover, text mining techniques are applied to categorise the EU cohesion policy projects into fifteen thematic categories. Stylised facts reveal substantial regional heterogeneity in the distribution of funds to certain projects and beneficiaries (with respect to their size or industry). Furthermore, regional funds distribution differs across less developed and higher-income as well as urban and rural regions. In an econometric analysis, we control for project and firm characteristics that we expect to determine the single project's value, which is confirmed by the results. Nevertheless, there remains unexplained variation in individual project volumes, which differs systematically across countries.

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“…The way in which support to firms interacts with territorial capital has been further investigated in Bachtrögler et al (2019), thanks to collaboration with the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the WIFO. In this case, the analysis was developed thanks to a database of firms put together by our partner for many European countries for the Programming Period 2007-13.…”

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EU Regional Policy Effectiveness and the Role of Territorial Capital

Fratesi

Perucca

2019

Research for Development

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The present chapter reviews the recent studies of the group of regional and urban economics on the impact of the European Union regional policy on regional development. In particular, the focus of the research program is on the identification of the mechanisms through which the local territorial characteristics mediate the effect of public investments. Results show a strong relationship between the territorial capital of regions and the effectiveness of the EU regional policy. This evidence conveys relevant implications for policy makers. In particular, it suggests that regions should invest in those assets that are complementary to the ones which they already have, in order to build a balanced economic system.

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The influence of the local context on the implementation and impact of EU Cohesion Policy

Cited by 75 publications

References 30 publications

City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

City Brand Personality Projected by Municipalities from Central and Eastern Europe Countries—A Comparison of Facebook Usage

Guide to the galaxy of EU regional funds recipients: evidence from new data

EU Regional Policy Effectiveness and the Role of Territorial Capital

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